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Re: family Leave

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From: sbj
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 1994 00:44
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In article <3c00ab$7me@explorer.clark.net>, <prb@clark.net> writes:
> The estimated cost of the Family leave act was approximately $35/employee/
> year.  Hardly a budget breaker.  I ran into the Lobbyist for GD who was
> going to pitch congress against the Family leave act in 1991.  He was
> complaining that with 5,000 employees, that would cost GD about $150,000.
> And THAT"S A LOT OF MONEY!!!!...

Hmmm...I never heard a price tag of actual dollars spent on this program.
I've heard projections from both sides of the aisle though.  I'd appreciate
if you could tell me the source so I can look at the methods used as it seems
to be a very difficult figure to compute (although anything can be 
guesstimated).

							- SBJ -
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